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. >> reporter: santa had plenty of fans at union square tonight. and shoppers had plenty of entertainment to get in the spirit. as for numbers? maybe a mixed bag. deep discounts are showing up. 50, 60, even 70%. but many in the westfield mall were empty handed just starting to shop perhaps, or like this family, already finished. >> we're done. done. completely done. just getting to enjoy the next couple of days with all the family. >> reporter: what do you think of the crowds? >> not as bad as i thought they would be. >> we started at 8:30. >> reporter: this morning. start time for three friends still shopping at 8:30 p.m. >> we still have a couple more stores. >> reporter: not procrastinators, a strategic plan. >> stores are open longer. there's more sales. >> also you get more for your money. so i love it. >> reporter: holiday sales are forecast to rise about 4% this year. just shy of the 5% uptick seen each of the past two years. >> this year's entry is my ugly christmas sweater. >> reporter: of course some things are one of a kind. not found in
. >> reporter: santa had plenty of fans at union square tonight. and shoppers had plenty of entertainment to get in the spirit. as for numbers? maybe a mixed bag. deep discounts are showing up. 50, 60, even 70%. but many in the westfield mall were empty handed just starting to shop perhaps, or like this family, already finished. >> we're done. done. completely done. just getting to enjoy the next couple of days with all the family. >> reporter: what do you think of the crowds?...
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. >>> thank you so much for watching "state of the union." have a safe holiday season. i'm candy crowley in washington. head to cnn.com/sotu for extras. for all of us at state of the union, again, we want to wish you a merry christmas and happy holiday season. fareed zakaria "gps" is next for our viewers here in the united states. >>> this is "gps" the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. on the show today, we'll move past the fiscal cliff and talk about the real challenges to the economy. i will talk to the chief economic adviser of the romney campaign and president obama's former budget czar peter orzack, among others. >>> also, let me tell you about the biggest success story in latin america. it's not brazil. much closer to home. then, as the world watches the arab world struggle with democracy, we'll take a look at the problem from an unusual perspective, upside down. how does a country turn away from democracy as eastern europe did 50 years ago? i talked to pulitzer prize winning historian anne h
. >>> thank you so much for watching "state of the union." have a safe holiday season. i'm candy crowley in washington. head to cnn.com/sotu for extras. for all of us at state of the union, again, we want to wish you a merry christmas and happy holiday season. fareed zakaria "gps" is next for our viewers here in the united states. >>> this is "gps" the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm...
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i blew up, not for the first or last time, and said, how can it be the head of the soviet union dies, and we have no contingency plan. it was criminal, said the president. the truth was the united states and the other western nations had very little idea of what was happening behind the iron curtain. two years later at the first summit meeting of the cold war era at geneva in 1955, the united states still did not know who was running the soviet union. they sent four leaders, one tall white man in a white suit with a white goatee who looked like colonel sanders from kentucky fried chicken, clearly, a figure head. the head of the red army, ike's ally in defeating the nazis in world war ii. eisenhower spent his son, john, to do some spying. subdued and shaken, just whispered, "things are not as they seem." presidentize -- president eisenhower found out who was in charge on the fifth day of the conference. the big pier of the nuclear age was a surprise attack. proposed each country allow the other country's reconnaissance plane to fly overhead to detect preparations for a sneak attack. th
i blew up, not for the first or last time, and said, how can it be the head of the soviet union dies, and we have no contingency plan. it was criminal, said the president. the truth was the united states and the other western nations had very little idea of what was happening behind the iron curtain. two years later at the first summit meeting of the cold war era at geneva in 1955, the united states still did not know who was running the soviet union. they sent four leaders, one tall white man...
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the problem is within the soviet union, they don't know who's in charge. they're busy dealing with, you know, killing off baarrhea. there's such tumult within the soviet union, basically, nobody's in charge. it takes them two years really, and we don't have any good intelligence on what's going on in the soviet union. the first cia station chief was caught, in moscow, was caught in a honey trap, a kgb set-up with a prostitute. so the cia didn't have anything going there. it was called the deny territory in the world war ii lexicon, so we didn't really have good intelligence, and things were chaotic. i don't think there was a deal to be had because there was really sort of nobody on the other side. nonetheless, nonetheless, you know, maybe if we tried a little bit harder, it's one of these what ifs if you can endlessly ponder. i believe there are scholars who believe a missed opportunity in our rigid cold war thinking. john foster dulles was very resistant to negotiation, that's true. sort of those what ifs that sort of lurk out there and may never be resol
the problem is within the soviet union, they don't know who's in charge. they're busy dealing with, you know, killing off baarrhea. there's such tumult within the soviet union, basically, nobody's in charge. it takes them two years really, and we don't have any good intelligence on what's going on in the soviet union. the first cia station chief was caught, in moscow, was caught in a honey trap, a kgb set-up with a prostitute. so the cia didn't have anything going there. it was called the deny...
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blustery union in spacey i assessed welcomes its latest crew man after a two day journey with a spacewalk and war and then a hundred scientific experiments i have stories coming out after the break. on the edge of human capabilities. struggling with a dream to. play out to become the first. force told him. i. she could laboratory tim kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care watch only on the r g dot com. welcome back you're watching r.t. life in moscow in the spirit of christmas isn't just a good feeling it's all multi-billion dollar industry lights tinsel decorations all make for a pretty sight but sometimes the obscure those less fortunate ideas marina for now reports from new york. a match in a country with no homeless people i know it's not the most festive or jolly like question to ask during the holiday season but see here in the u.s. nearly six hundred thirty four thousand people went homeless last yea
blustery union in spacey i assessed welcomes its latest crew man after a two day journey with a spacewalk and war and then a hundred scientific experiments i have stories coming out after the break. on the edge of human capabilities. struggling with a dream to. play out to become the first. force told him. i. she could laboratory tim kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should...
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open to really high ceo company saying than it used to be, decroon in the -- decline in the rights of unions, deregulation, and all of those things are factors. but i think it's a real mistake to ignore the economic drivers as well. and i think there are very, very powerful, underlying economic drivers, and those are pretty obvious; globalization, the technology revolution. and one reason i think that it's really pretty clear that those are key drivers is this is a global phenomenon. and i do sometimes think the american discourse about it tends to be very american. so i'm always quite entertained when i read about, you know, a paper that says rising income inequality in the united states is due to this one particular law passed in the 980s. -- 1980s. okay, then how does that account for rising income inequality in canada or, indeed, even in france, in germany, in the united kingdom? i mean, it's happening all over the world, it's also happening in emerging markets. but i think it is important to face that scary because if you see it just as a political phenomenon, you know, you're going to
open to really high ceo company saying than it used to be, decroon in the -- decline in the rights of unions, deregulation, and all of those things are factors. but i think it's a real mistake to ignore the economic drivers as well. and i think there are very, very powerful, underlying economic drivers, and those are pretty obvious; globalization, the technology revolution. and one reason i think that it's really pretty clear that those are key drivers is this is a global phenomenon. and i do...
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to walk a tightrope between her german voters who do not favor bailing out europe and the european union. best politician, angela. you got it? you can write that down. pat, put it in your column. worst politician. >> susan rice. she was fed these phony talking points by the cia. she went on a defensive. and president obama left her, john, twisting slowly, slowly in the wind. she's gone. >> she'll still be our u.n. ambassador, though, pat. i give worst politician to mitt romney who never quite came across as human. and he lost. in part, because of his personality. >> she is going to stand you up, ambassador? >> yes. >> herm an cain again because a man who runs for the presidency who didn't think that his personal life would ultimately blow up presidency. >> does he have a job? >> he does. i don't know that he has -- >> he is a great -- he has a great future in talk-radio, i am sure. >> clarence, something for us? >> yes. worst politician, clint eastwood, although he is a good actor. >> this is very domestic. i will though it out on a larger scale for you. does that help you any, pat? wors
to walk a tightrope between her german voters who do not favor bailing out europe and the european union. best politician, angela. you got it? you can write that down. pat, put it in your column. worst politician. >> susan rice. she was fed these phony talking points by the cia. she went on a defensive. and president obama left her, john, twisting slowly, slowly in the wind. she's gone. >> she'll still be our u.n. ambassador, though, pat. i give worst politician to mitt romney who...